The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 38This was due to the discovery that the fibrous outer covering of wheat, rice, and
other cereals is a major source of vitamin B^ As a result of a preference for finely
milled grains and flours from which the outer covering had been removed, the ...

Página 109The preference for beef some say was transplanted from Great Britain along with
the English language — a nice explanation as long as you ignore the fact that the
English traditionally consumed almost as much mutton as beef, and that the ...

Página 117Whatever the precise combination of factors preventing northerners from
developing a preference for pork, they were not merely acting out their ancestral
British preference for beef. The British, after all, settled the South as much as the
North, ...

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Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.